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[samthefishman]

in the other thread i made.
CFC all the eggs have hatched. The dad is still fanning them, should i take him out tho? all the other fish are in another 4 ft tank. I can easyily put him in there to, should i? i can see their little black eyes, they arnt free swimming yet.

what do i feed them? what would they eat in the wild?

 

[CFC]

You musn't move the male until they are free swimming, the stage they are in now is what breeders reffer to as "wrigglers" and there is probably another 24 hours until they will start to free themselves from the egg and swim away.
Start feeding the tank now with a liquid fry food as this will encourage natural insofuria in the water which the fry will feed on once they have absorbed the yolk sack which will take 24 hours, feed the liquid food as per the manufacturers instructions, usually 1 drop per gallon 4 times a day. They fry should grow quickly and by day 5 they will be able to accept newly hatched brine shrimp so go about setting up a hatcher now and add the eggs to the hatcher 4 days after the fry become free swimming, this way you will have live newly hatched brine shrimp ready for them when they need it, use the brine shrimp to replace one of the liquid food feeds, i advise running two hatchers and using the food alternately so you have a continual source. Within two weeks the fry should be able to start taking chopped bloodworms and small daphnia.

 

[samthefishman]

thanks heaps man, i have been stressing bout it.

1 more question, how can i hatch brine shrimp? would they sell eggs at the lfs? could u give me some steps of what to do?
Thanks for all your help.

 

[CFC]

You should be able to buy a hatching kit from the lfs, this will comprise of a hatching tube, a length of airline, a air valve, salt tablets, eggs and instructions on how to hatch them, if not you can read these topics and build your own hatchery BRINE SHRIMP POSTS

 

[Michael Roth]

I sent you an email Sam, it is from msroth@gmail.com, with a text attachment.